No surprise: ESA’s Ministerial Council approved (officially…) the RAMSES mission. While meeting this week (26-27 Nov… US holiday), the European Space Agency’s Council of Ministers officiated Agency matters. RAMSES is now on track to rendezvous with Apophis in ~2029, partly… Read More »RAMSES Has Rubber Stamp
More reports on our extrasolar boulder: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.16247[Submitted on 20 Nov 2025]Ahuja, G. Ganesh, S. Dynamical simulation of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Using Newton’s laws (plus a little of Kepler’s), with the path of the comet… Read More »ATLAS Hindustan-Tracking
Posted to Astronomers’ Telegram last week, two more short reports: ATel #17503, www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17503 Bolin, B. Wong, I. Lemaux, B. et al. Gemini pre-perihelion detection of CN/C3/C2 gas emission and dust fans in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 20 Nov 2025; 02:37 UTATel #17502; www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17502Ganesh,… Read More »3I/ATLAS Bi-‘Gram
In International Journal of Impact Engineering for November (volume 205): Kurosaki, K. Kurosawa, K. Arakawa, M. Ejection angles during hypervelocity impacts on flat and spherical targets investigated with shock physics modeling Art 105400 .2025.105400 DART! DART is the hypervelocity impact,… Read More »Note, Paper: Impact Back-Calc
New posts from Astronomers’ Telegram: www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17490Jewitt, D. Luu, J. 3I/ATLAS Still Single ATel #17490; 11 Nov 2025; 19:55 UT www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17499Pisano, D. J. Smirnov, O. M. Ivchenko, M. et al. Further MeerKAT observations of 1665/1667 MHz OH in absorption and emission, and a technosignature… Read More »Interstellar Telegram-Slam (3I)
Posted in arXiv, a non-peer reviewed paper, by choice. These preprint servers are also handy for distribution of whitepapers, position papers, and reference works: [multiple fields] www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10927 Moullet, A. Burgarella, D. Kataria, T. et al. PRIMA General Observer Science Book Volume… Read More »PRIMA Phase A Ways Elaborated
The November 10 ApJ (Astrophysical Journal) (vol. 993 #2) has: Cryan, S. Brunetto, R. Guilbert-Lepoutre, A. et al. Nitrogen-bearing Species on Trans-Neptunian Objects Revealed by JWST/DiSCo-TNOs art. 188 ae060d Kimura, H. Hirai, T. Okamoto, T. et al. Tensile Strength of Dust, Pebbles, and Planetesimals:… Read More »Note, Paper: The Tensile or Volatile
The journal Solar System Research is (was?) the preferred title for Soviet/Russian scientists in that field- essentially, the eastern Icarus. In Sol Sys Res for 10 Nov, vol. 59: Kokhirova, G. I. On the Progress and Problems of Observational Meteor… Read More »Note, Paper: To See the Meteor Field
Quickly: ApJL (Astrophysical Journal, Letters), the fast(er…)-response medium of Astrophysical Journal, now includes (vol. 994 #1, Nov 20): Jewitt, D. Luu, J. Preperihelion Development of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS L3 This is the “print” (official, as opposed to preprint) of their… Read More »3I Light Curve Blurb
The November edition of MNRAS (actually three “issues”) is now up: Volume 543, Issue 3, November Huang, C. Wu, Y. Yu, Y. Force chains bias the dynamic response to impacts in rubble-pile asteroids Pg 2523 staf1575Matsuoka, R. N. Kuramoto, K. Origin… Read More »Note, Paper: Bits Whizz, Near and Far